Xerocerastus schultzei (O. Boettger, 1910 )

Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, Indago: Investigating nature and humanity in Africa (Oxford, England) 41 (10), pp. 15-44 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13132605

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15633962

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Xerocerastus schultzei (O. Boettger, 1910 )
status

 

50. Xerocerastus schultzei (O. Boettger, 1910) View in CoL

Distribution and year: “Sekuma” (Sekoma) 1904 ( Boettger 1910); Kang 1904 ( Boettger 1910); Kang- Kakir 1904 ( Boettger 1910); “Kakir–Lekututu” (Khakhea–Lehututu) 1904 to 1905 ( Boettger 1910).

Geographic range: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa.

Habitat: Terrestrial.

Notes: The species is endemic to the semi-desert regions of Southern Africa. Fossilised shells were mostly found in pans of the Kalahari Desert ( Lancaster 1974).

Type locality: “in the British region of the Kalahari ”, Botswana ( Boettger 1910) .

Sources: Boettger (1910: 442); Connolly (1912: 174); van Bruggen (1966 a: 109); GBIF (2023 b).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

SuperOrder

Hygrophila

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Achatinidae

Genus

Xerocerastus

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